Deaf Sparrow review of MURDERESS LP!

murderess MURDERESS
The Last Thing You Will Ever See
(Aborted Society)

People who go about town meet so many nice fellas from Portland it is hard to imagine maniacs like these come from such a place. Somehow, the acid sound of Murderess sounds righteous though, like the ‘city of roses’ is the perfect breeding environment for this much vile and bad blood.  Nice places birth the worst kind, we guess. As the facades crumble, the grime is revealed. Murderess don’t put make up on and have just that killer instinct.

The Last Thing You Will Ever See is the debut recording from this 4/5 female band, but you’d have to look at a pic to notice the unbalance in estrogen. That’s for you dudes that still think of females as uncapable of unleashing the ire. Murderess do so, incessantly thru eight cuts, that must be said, though cut from the same cloth, slice thru necks like samurai swords over sumo wrestler’s bellies.

What jumps like bulgy eyes from Murderess’ sound are the vocals of Jozy, whose raw hysterical throat goes for a menacing and agonizing angle. Her lyrics are obsessive and her delivery, moreso, prevalent and present in almost every second of sound.  She is the most acidic ingredient in this stew and may to some, be the hurdle to jump. Stringers Amanda, Casey and Rachel on the other hand, make sure the stuff remains palatable and so they construct hardcore tunes that march with two guitar lines; one offering this virulent undercurrent and this other one, which when not supporting the sado proceedings offer a more melodic strain at a higher register.

But Murderess play D Beat and are pretty melodic at that. Special attention shall be given to the second half, which comes strong with “Discordance Pervades” where the matching arrangements between music and vocals evoke certain cells of black metal. Now, some argue that Murderess remind of a mix between Sacrilege and Celtic Frost, and I’ll go with the first, while apparent tastemaker Fenriz argues that their 4-track demo was equal parts His Hero is Gone and Puke, then I’ll go with the former.

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